Giant in the Mid-Atlantic region has the portable scanners (Not Giant Eagle, just Giant.) I don’t know your location.
Based on the geographic extent of Meijers: Midwest America between Ohio and the Mississippi, with a north-south extent between Kentucky and Wisconsin. Which is a fairly large patch of ground but it should narrow down the possibilities.
The Meijers around here don’t have hand-held scanners they hand out to people, the tell you to download their app, which allows you to use your smart-phone as a scanner. Guess you’re just out of luck if you don’t have a smart phone.
Those are the people who still pay with checks.
Remarkably… it’s a mixed bag. I have smartphone users paying with checks and non-smartphone users paying with plastic. About 1/3 of our transactions still use cash in whole or in part.
Interesting. I did not know that. We don’t have any of those stores around here (Northern California).
I love using Sam’s Club Scan & Go. Using their app I can scan the items with my phone and then check out with my phone. I don’t have to get into a line for anything - except of course for the person that checks receipts and items as you leave.
I would expect that the scan and go systems work best in stores where you have to be a member, like Amazon, Sams, and Costco. There is going to be less worry about theft. If they catch someone stealing on cam, it won’t be too much trouble to figure out who they are since they have to be a member to shop. A regular grocery store would not have that ability.
For the regular grocery stores that have a scanning wand, do you have to register your personal info to use it? Or can anyone walk in the door, grab a scanner, and start shopping?
I’d assume you need to register and have a credit card on file so you can be charged.
Don’t worry, I’ve reported him to the Home Office.
Heh. If you knew him you’d understand how funny this is. He’d freak out if I told him about this until I explained it was a joke.
I think you just need to scan your club card to pick up the hand scanner at Stop & Shop, but no you don’t need any payment system on file. Why would you? Aren’t we taking about the handheld scanner that you scan each item as you shop, bag it in your cart, and then pay when you leave? You still pay at the register when you are done, you just scan the scanner and everything is already in there.
You’re probably right for Stop & Shop. You still need to be registered, but you wouldn’t have to have a credit card on file. However, the question was asked in context of a scan and go system where you don’t even stop at a register. Stop & Shop likely doesn’t have a scan and go system.
Ah, I see. That style checkout I don’t think I’ve seen anywhere other than Amazon’s stores and some places at an airport.
Googling, Stop & Shop have a SCAN IT! Mobile app for the iPhone so with that you may not need to stop at the register.
I believe SCAN IT! Mobile still requires you to go to a checkout and pay. It just transmits your “order” to the cash register.
The person describing the mobile checkout at Tesco had to stop at the register, so not that different.
I was just mentioning to someone that there are only a few stores where I don’t self-checkout, mostly smaller stores that don’t offer it. Including Aldi. Then I saw this article. Aldi’s is quietly testing self-checkout in the United States and other countries, and piloting checkout-free (cell phone app) in London.
I use shop, scan and checkout exclusively. The Meijer app is on my phone, I use it to scan in items as I shop. It automatically brings up coupons that I can select or ignore. It’s on me not to scan items multiple times and to remember to scan clearance items at the register.
I weigh produce, scan it and stick the label on it. Occasionally the app crashes but it usually reloads my cart. Sometimes I have to rescan everything in my cart thus having a label on the produce saves time and steps.
I do not care for self checkout where one scans and bags at the register. So touchy! For a few items ok fine but not for a cart of stuff!
The Aldi in Cary, North Carolina had self-checkout the last time I went there, a little over 2 years ago. However, it would not allow cash payements.
Aldi checkers are the fastest I’ve ever seen. I can see traffic jams in my future if my local Aldi ever implements self checkout.